Fort Branch is a very small town located in the state of Indiana. With a population of 2,931 people and just one neighborhood, Fort Branch is the 188th largest community in Indiana.
When you are in Fort Branch, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 47.02% of Fort Branch’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Fort Branch is a town of production and manufacturing workers, sales and office workers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Fort Branch who work in office and administrative support (13.88%), sales jobs (6.70%), and management occupations (6.55%).
Compared to the rest of the country, citizens of Fort Branch spend much less time in their cars: on average, their commute to work is only 18.02 minutes. This also means that noise and pollution levels in the town are less than they would otherwise be.
Fort Branch is a small town, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.
The education level of Fort Branch citizens, measured as those with bachelor's degrees or advanced degrees, is similar to the national average for all American cities and towns. 19.17% of adults 25 and older in Fort Branch have a college degree.
The per capita income in Fort Branch in 2022 was $31,314, which is upper middle income relative to Indiana, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $125,256 for a family of four. However, Fort Branch contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Fort Branch home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Fort Branch residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Fort Branch include German, Irish, English, Scots-Irish, and French.
The most common language spoken in Fort Branch is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Spanish.
When you see a neighborhood for the first time, the most important thing is often the way it looks, like its homes and its setting. Some places look the same, but they only reveal their true character after living in them for a while because they contain a unique mix of occupational or cultural groups. This neighborhood is very unique in some important ways, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive exploration and analysis.
Each year, fewer and fewer Americans make their living as farmers, foresters, or fishers. But the neighborhood truly stands out among U.S. neighborhoods. According to exclusive NeighborhoodScout analysis, this neighborhood has a greater proportion of farmers, foresters, or fishers than 96.8% of all American neighborhoods. This is truly a unique cultural characteristic of this neighborhood.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more German ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 40.0% of this neighborhood's residents have German ancestry.
How wealthy a neighborhood is, from very wealthy, to middle income, to low income is very formative with regard to the personality and character of a neighborhood. Equally important is the rate of people, particularly children, who live below the federal poverty line. In some wealthy gated communities, the areas immediately surrounding can have high rates of childhood poverty, which indicates other social issues. NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals both aspects of income and poverty for this neighborhood.
The neighbors in the neighborhood in Fort Branch are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 63.8% of U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, 9.9% of the children seventeen and under living in this neighborhood are living below the federal poverty line, which is a lower rate of childhood poverty than is found in 51.0% of America's neighborhoods.
The old saying "you are what you eat" is true. But it is also true that you are what you do for a living. The types of occupations your neighbors have shape their character, and together as a group, their collective occupations shape the culture of a place.
In the neighborhood, 39.7% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is executive, management, and professional occupations, with 21.6% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (18.5%), and 15.3% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.8% of households.
Culture is shared learned behavior. We learn it from our parents, their parents, our houses of worship, and much of our culture – our learned behavior – comes from our ancestors. That is why ancestry and ethnicity can be so interesting and important to understand: places with concentrations of people of one or more ancestries often express those shared learned behaviors and this gives each neighborhood its own culture. Even different neighborhoods in the same city can have drastically different cultures.
In the neighborhood in Fort Branch, IN, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (40.0%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (17.5%), and residents who report English roots (8.5%), and some of the residents are also of French ancestry (2.3%), along with some Scots-Irish ancestry residents (2.2%), among others.
Even if your neighborhood is walkable, you may still have to drive to your place of work. Some neighborhoods are located where many can get to work in just a few minutes, while others are located such that most residents have a long and arduous commute. The greatest number of commuters in neighborhood spend under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (50.5% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (77.2%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In addition, quite a number also carpool with coworkers, friends, or neighbors to get to work (16.6%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.